U.S. Open (Golf) Fan Guide 2015
A fan guide to the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay (University Place, Wash.) in 2015. An extended version of The News Tribune's weekly Go section.
A fan guide to the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay (University Place, Wash.) in 2015. An extended version of The News Tribune's weekly Go section.
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Acting can’t save ‘I’ll See You in My Dreams’<br />
45<br />
BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS<br />
Chicago Tribune<br />
Our attraction to the<br />
movies starts from simple<br />
building blocks, such as a<br />
face, a heart-wrenching<br />
separation, a pratfall. But<br />
here are two simple<br />
pleasures I defy anyone to<br />
argue against: Blythe<br />
Danner’s and Sam Elliott’s<br />
speaking voices.<br />
Both instruments are<br />
showcased in the modest,<br />
Kickstarter-funded<br />
heartwarmer “I’ll See You in<br />
My Dreams.” To reiterate<br />
what others have already<br />
noted, it’s stupidly<br />
uncommon for an American<br />
indie (let alone a<br />
better-funded studio<br />
project) to give a proper<br />
shot to an actress like<br />
Danner. I fell for her<br />
sometime around “Hearts of<br />
the West” in 1975, so there’s<br />
my disclosure. That<br />
distinctive speaking voice of<br />
hers has lent sandpapery<br />
wit and impish class to so<br />
many supporting roles of<br />
varying qualities over the<br />
years, it’s a relief — even<br />
though the movie isn’t much<br />
— to see Danner in a<br />
leading role on screen again.<br />
She plays Carol, a retired<br />
and widowed schoolteacher<br />
who lives a comfortable,<br />
routine life in Los Angeles.<br />
Her husband has been gone<br />
20 years, and her<br />
bridge-playing pals,<br />
Sam Elliott and Blythe Danner star in “I’ll See You in My Dreams.”<br />
portrayed by June Squibb,<br />
Rhea Perlman and Mary<br />
Kay Place, urge her to get<br />
back in the game. Right on<br />
cue, the game begins when a<br />
sly, cigar-chomping fellow<br />
pulls up alongside Carol in<br />
his car and asks her out.<br />
Elliott plays Bill, and though<br />
the narrative tosses a<br />
significant complication into<br />
an initially tentative<br />
romance,<br />
moment-to-moment things<br />
happen the way you suspect.<br />
This will hardly prevent<br />
the film’s likely target<br />
audience from enjoying<br />
itself. Older folks still go to<br />
the movies, yet they have to<br />
search pretty hard most<br />
weeks to find anything that<br />
deals with issues, themes<br />
and performers of a certain<br />
age. The actors are terrific.<br />
It’s too bad, though, that<br />
co-writer, editor and<br />
director Brett Haley settles<br />
for so little.<br />
Carol’s unlikely friendship<br />
with her slacker pool<br />
attendant (Martin Starr)<br />
provides Danner’s character<br />
with a necessary sounding<br />
board, but necessity in this<br />
case isn’t the mother of<br />
invention.<br />
This is one of those<br />
scripts that might have been<br />
more interesting a couple of<br />
drafts ago, before the<br />
detours were closed off. And<br />
yet, when Danner’s Carol<br />
shares scenes with Elliott’s<br />
calmly determined suitor,<br />
there’s considerable charm<br />
in the results. Both leading<br />
performers have eased,<br />
beautifully, into their early<br />
70s. As “I’ll See You in My<br />
Dreams” reminds us,<br />
Danner and Elliott are<br />
masters in the art of turning<br />
ordinary material into little<br />
bits of truth, and life.<br />
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